1 JANUARY 1910, Page 10

Lord Rothschild made a very interesting speech on Tuesday at

a meeting held in support of Mr. Percy Simmons, the Unionist candidate for the St:George's-in-the-East division. If the Jews had good reason to complain of the Aliens Act or its administration, he was sure that no Unionist Member would be ashamed to listen to their complaint and do his best to have it redressed. He repu- diated the insinuation that he wished to shirk his burden of taxation. What he did object to was the new inquisitorial bureaucracy which the Government sought to impose on them. It was to escape from the tyranny of bureaucracy that so many of his co-religionists had fled from Russia to England, and it was a similar bureaucracy that the Liberal Government wished to impose on this country.